Fredericksburg to Washington DC drive: Distance, time & best stops
The best stops on the Fredericksburg to Washington DC drive are the National Museum of the United States Army, the DEA Museum and Arlington National Cemetery. By car, the distance from Fredericksburg to Washington DC is 53 miles. Expect a 1h12m driving time.
Planning a Fredericksburg to Washington DC road trip itinerary
The Fredericksburg to Washington DC drive connects a prettily historic Virginia city with the national capital.
Fredericksburg offers self-guided smartphone walking tours.
Washington DC has an enormous range of tours, experiences and attractions available. You could happily spend weeks in the Smithsonian Museums alone. Top choices, however, include the nighttime monuments and memorials tour, small group guided visits to the Capitol and National Library of Congress and Lincoln assassination tours that visit Fords Theatre.
Fredericksburg to Washington DC distance and driving time
By car, the distance from Fredericksburg to Washington DC is 53 miles. You can expect a driving time of around one hour and 12 minutes. The drive is almost entirely along the I-95.
The best stops between Fredericksburg are the National Museum of the United States Army, the DEA Museum and Arlington National Cemetery.
Fredericksburg to Washington DC drive: National Museum of the United States Army
The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is partly about honouring the nation’s soldiers. But it also looks at the role of the army, both in founding and securing the state, and global conflicts.
It’s a big place, and you shouldn’t expect too many light-hearted touches, but there should be at least something to engross most visitors. Entry is free.
Fredericksburg to Washington DC road trip attractions: DEA Museum
In Arlington, the DEA Museum is the Drug Enforcement Agency’s attempt to educate everyone that drugs are very bad.
But it’s more interesting than you might imagine, telling a (somewhat one-sided) history of drug use. It flits from 60s psychedelics, to the 1980s crack influx via 19th century opium dens.
There are also eye-opening sections on smuggling operations, and the ingenious methods of getting drugs into the US that have been rumbled by enforcement officers.
Attractions between Fredericksburg and Washington DC: Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is the US’ cemetery for its war dead, and more than 400,000 military personnel and their dependents are buried here.
It’s also home to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with its elaborate changing of the guard ceremony. There’s also the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial and John F Kennedy’s Grave, plus Arlington House – home of Confederate general Robert E Lee.
Arguably the best way of getting around is on the Arlington Cemetery Hop-On, Hop Off tour, but you can also do a walking tour.
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